I am not an X-File.

Fringe is back on SkyHD for a second outing and it’s a welcome return. Having concluded season one with a meeting between the mysterious William Bell (Leonard Nimoy) and Agent Dunham in the World Trade Center of an alternative universe (that really is a freaky sounding sentence for those who haven’t watched),  I was all set for some answers as I sat down to enjoy episode one of season two but, to be honest, I should’ve known better. The episode started with a car crash that saw Olivia

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Tags: Fringe, John Noble, Leonard Nimoy, Olivia Dunham, Sky, Walter Bishop, X-Files

Keep Calm and Carry On

Here we are, two-and-a-half weeks into 2009 and it’s been a quiet one on the TV viewing front. There have been quite a few nights of late when the telly has remained stubbornly switched off. A quick glance at my Sky Planner shows a meagre capacity of “29% free” so I will have to start watching soon.  BSG returns on Tuesday and Lost cannot be too far away either and both of these HD shows will eat into that at a pace. I have five parts of Neil Fergusson’s The Ascent of Money and

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Tags: 24, Ascent of Money, Battlestar Galactica, Jack-Bauer, James-May, Lost, Oz Clarke, QI, Royal Institute, Sky

It’s gonna be an amazing day at the Ryder cup… it’s one of those must see sporting events that translate so well onto television.  Sky’s coverage has been pretty good (as usual) and the commentary team seem to be so involved that it’s infectious. The US are currently 9-7 up over Europe and here’s the line-up for today’s singles matches (tee off times in BST) and, for what it’s worth, a prediction from me…….

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Tags: 2008, Cup, Europe, Golf, Preview, Ryder, Sky, Sports, USA

4×10: “Midnight”

Ladies and gentlemen and variations thereupon, that was a bit good wasn’t it?  Just at the time when the soon to be gone Russell T Davies gets an OBE for his efforts and the vocal minority are bemoaning the fact that their anti-hero is penning all four of the remaining episodes in Series 4, the great man serves up a real treat with Midnight, a claustrophobic slice of hardcore sci-fi that, even the folk who love him didn’t think

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Tags: Confidential, David Tennant, David Troughton, Lesley Sharp, Lindsay Coulson, Midnight, Rafaella Carra, Russell-T-Davies, Sky

The Wildfire Team Talk The Talk

A week or so ago, the Other Viewer noticed that a two-part version of The Andromeda Strain had downloaded itself onto our Sky Anytime service. For those that don’t know, when you get a Sky HD box fitted, it comes with 2x 360Gb hard drives, one for you to record away to your heart’s content, the other to be used by some halfwits from SkyHQ who send you High Def television for viewing pleasure. Unlike Tivo, it makes no effort

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Tags: 2008, Andromeda_Strain, Anytime, Eric_McCormack, Ridley_Scott, Sky, Tony_Scott

Lost Returns… and so do I

Well, it’s a been a while since I’ve been here blogging and I lay the blame solely at the door of my employer: extra hours and a stressfull project are not conducive to my leisurely tapping away at a keyboard of a evening.  Also, the thought of having a job that involves tapping away at a keyboard (albeit in an un-leisurely manner) all day, only to come home and spend my “free” time doing exactly the same thing would seem a little masochistic.  However, the intervening period since the last post has seen a dramatic

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Tags: HD, Hurley, Jacob, Lost, Sky, Sky-One, The Begining of the End, The Island, Through-The-Looking-Glass